Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:48:41 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > For objects that do both, how does the user choose ? > > Do we really want to have a file paradigm that's different > from the other OSes out there ?
What does MacOS X do? Someone said that documents are directories in it; it must know how to handle that.
What does Windows do when you click on a .zip file and WinZIP is installed? It opens the .zip file and lets you explore inside. When you click on a .doc file, though, it opens a viewer or editor -- you don't get the option to look inside.
> What happens when users want to transfer data from Linux > to another system ?
This is why I favour storing all essential metadata (about the file's content) inside the file's contents, the primary stream.
We have another problem: what happens when users want to transfer data from Windows (with secondary streams) and MacOS (with resource forks)?
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